Some dance performances (round, transition and waggle dances; shaking dance; tremble dance) were observed at the fixed or movable feeders of 0-14 m distance from the hive entrance in Sapporo and Sanda. After the dance performances were described by the original description system, the waggle dances in 1978 and 1999 were reported with different implications and interests :the former seemed to be related to the stabilit yof the bee flight ,and the latter was performed by the past remembrance of another feeding place. As the former was an isolated and very anomalous data, it remained dormant in my register papers for 22 years. The observations in 1996 and 1999 were planned in order to observe this behavior again, but the waggle dance at very near distance could not be observed. The failure in 1999 is detailed and discussed in relatio nto the function of dance performances, which seemed to be based on human-level explanations. It comprised 2 waggle dances, 6 round dances, 43 transition dances, 10 tremble dances, 10 shaking dances and 50 no dance that could be observed when 4 workers went on 94 trips.
